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07/12/11 WSIL NEWS -- Angry state workers took to the streets Tuesday, protesting the governor's decision to cancel pay raises for 30,000 employees. Hundreds of members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees formed picket lines at more than 75 work sites across Illinois.
07/12/11 On the normally quiet grounds of Choate Mental Health Center in Anna on Tuesday morning, about 40 to 50 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gathered - in some cases with their children - in protest.
06/28/11 Members of the American Federation of Government Employees will protest Thursday outside U.S. Rep. Tim Scott's West Ashley office.
06/27/11 Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) representing employees at the Newton and Mitchellville correctional facilities recently donated $1,000 to the Freedom Flight project, intended to send veterans to Washington D.C. to view the monuments. Pictured (from left) are Adam Swihart, AFSCME Iowa; Joe Halberstadt, treasurer, AFSCME Local 451; Sarah Zaruba ...
06/24/11 In an election this week 40,000 TSA employees voted to become members of the American Federation of Government Employees. A few conservative politicians claim this will threaten national security but John Nichols of The Nation believes the opposite is true. read more
06/17/11 The Maryland director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Patrick Moran, said Friday that a correctional officer of the Western Correctional Institution was seriously injured during an alleged assault by an inmate Thursday night.
05/23/11 More than 100 members of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees union met at the Holiday Inn in Norwich to learn more about their tentative contract agreement with the state.
05/21/11 Employees of Dillingham's police department have voted for union representation, says Jake Metcalfe, executive director of local 803 of the Public Safety Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
04/20/11 TRACIE MAURIELLO Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG, Pa. While the state universities' lowest paid workers are gearing up to fight a proposed 4 percent pay cut in July, their bosses already are putting extra money in their own pockets. Gov. Tom Corbett is asking for the pay giveback from 45,000 state workers represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ...
04/20/11 While the state universities' lowest paid workers are gearing up to fight a proposed 4 percent pay cut in July, their bosses already are putting extra money in their own pockets. Gov. Tom Corbett is asking for the pay giveback from 45,000 state workers represented by the American Federation of State...
04/16/11 One of the unions that has been in the spotlight in Wisconsin is the American Federation of Teachers. The Oregon chapter of that union held their 2011 convention in Bend, and spoke about the situation with Wisconsin AFT President Bryan Kennedy.
04/15/11 MARISA MARMO and her fianc?, Randell Renn, have been very busy of late attending to her duties as reigning Columbus Day queen. On March 13, Marisa attended the Italian-American Federation Scholarship Fundraiser, where she assisted President Claire Ramirez in distributing great raffle prizes to
04/12/11 Attacks in the state prison system are not due to a furlough policy, said Greg Cox, of the state Department of Corrections. But Kevin Ranft of the American Federation of Federal, State and Municipal Employees, says the attacks were the result of short staffing.
04/02/11 Photo: Willa Audley, below right, stands in front of Colleen McBride, right, as she looks up at Lynda Walsh, left, who is wearing a crocodile hat during an American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, rally at the State House on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Walsh is a teacher at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua, and carried a sign that read, "STOP taking bites out of teachers, police, fire, and ...
04/02/11 They were in their classrooms when thousands of other public employees rallied on Thursday, so about 200 teachers and paraprofessionals held their own spirited demonstration Saturday against House-passed changes to collective bargaining rights. The hour-long rally at the State House was organized by the American Federation of Teachers-New Hampshire.
03/31/11 Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point voted Thursday to form a union with collective bargaining rights through AFT-Wisconsin, a statewide labor federation affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.
03/31/11 Organized labor supporters from around the country will descend on Memphis Monday to join members of the American Federation of State, County and Muni...
03/25/11 The City of Edmond has reached a tentative agreement with the local chapter of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union resolving the compensation issue for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.
03/24/11 Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls voted overwhelmingly Thursday to form a union with collective bargaining rights through AFT-Wisconsin, a statewide labor federation affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.
03/15/11 CHIPPEWA FALLS - The 75 Chippewa Falls city employees covered by the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union have agreed to a wage freeze over the next two years while paying more for their health insurance and retirement benefits.
03/15/11 Wilmington VA Clinician Warns that Proposed Cost Saving Strategy May Diminish Both Access and Quality of Health Care for Veterans WASHINGTON, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, March 2, the American Federation of Government Employees provided testimony before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee on the proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Year ... | 
